“Star Trek: The Next Generation: Ship Of The Line” Review by Trek Lit Reviews

Ship of the Line is a book with a great premise: a follow-up to one of my favorite TNG episodes, “Cause and Effect.” You remember it: The Enterprise gets trapped in a temporal causality loop, living the same day over and over again, with the Enterprise being destroyed in every loop until the crew is finally able to break out of it (interestingly enough, “Cause and Effect” predates Groundhog Day by just under a year!). At the end of the episode, the Enterprise is hailed by the ship that has been colliding with them, causing their destruction at the end of each loop: the U.S.S. Bozeman, commanded by Captain Morgan Bateson.